David Given wrote: [...] > For the second, the supplied FreeBSD kernel only appears to include the > fwe driver, which is alas non-standard. I'd need the fwip driver in > order to interoperate with Linux. Is there any reason why fwip isn't > built other than that nobody's needed it before --- as it is rather > niche?
FWIW, now solved; the installer CD gave me kernel 6.0, which doesn't support fwip, but 7.0 does. I installed that off a memory stick and it all worked fine. However: on my hardware, the 6.0 kernel was horribly unstable --- crashing every couple of hours and usually causing filesystem corruption. That *could* just be my old hardware; it's an old Toshiba notebook, and they're notoriously weird. But 7.0 seems to be rock solid. More interestingly, after such a crash, it would reboot, restart, fsck the file system, and then panic a bit later with a filesystem inconsistency. It would appear that the startup fsck wasn't doing anything. What's more, trying to reboot into single user mode didn't have any obvious effect --- the startup procedure looked identical to multiuser mode. I'd have to hammer CTRL+C during boot to make it give me a maintenance prompt. Are there any known issues with single-user mode? -- David Given [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
